This study examined the extent to which individuals used their self-concepts to determine brand preference. It was predicted that individuals would prefer brands with images congruent with their own self-image more than brands’ images inconsistent with their self-image. The study also predicted that others would influence consumers’ brand preference, and participants would prefer brands consona...

This study tests a social identity based mechanism for the effectiveness of plain tobacco packaging legislation, introduced in Australia in December 2012, to reduce cigarette smoking. 178 Australian smokers rated their sense of identification with fellow smokers of their brand, positive brand stereotypes, quitting behaviours and intentions, and smoking intensity, both before and seven months af...

Online brand communities reflect a shared interest among participants that sustains community identity around and through brand consumption. While exchanges within such a community are typically supportive, conflict can exist between different, and sometimes competing, brand communities. The phenomena of communities in conflict introduces an element of ‘other’ that allows each community to deli...

To begin with, an overview of the present challenges facing brand managers will reveal how the waning, or in some markets, non-existent, differentiating power of many brands results in enormous price pressures. After that the creation of competitive advantage will be examined from three different perspectives: the market-based view, the resource-based perspective, and the competence-based posit...

To begin with, an overview of the present challenges facing brand managers will reveal how the waning, or in some markets, non-existent, differentiating power of many brands results in enormous price pressures. After that the creation of competitive advantage will be examined from three different perspectives: the market-based view, the resource-based perspective, and the competence-based posit...

To begin with, an overview of the present challenges facing brand managers will reveal how the waning, or in some markets, non-existent, differentiating power of many brands results in enormous price pressures. After that the creation of competitive advantage will be examined from three different perspectives: the market-based view, the resource-based perspective, and the competence-based posit...

To begin with, an overview of the present challenges facing brand managers will reveal how the waning, or in some markets, non-existent, differentiating power of many brands results in enormous price pressures. After that the creation of competitive advantage will be examined from three different perspectives: the market-based view, the resource-based perspective, and the competence-based posit...

This article examines the development of Slovenian competitive identity over the past twenty years through marketing and political perspective. An inception and evolution of a destination brand is considered. The coincidence between the release of Slovenian new brand identities and decisive political steps Slovenia undertook between 1990 and 2007 is analysed in order to show a mutual interdepen...